· Private foundation
Douglas C & Lynn M Roberts Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $1k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $35k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $212k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OPPORTUNITY HOUSE | $162,000 |
| FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| CASA DEKALB COUNTY | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of Douglas C & Lynn M Roberts Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in IL; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- OHOPPORTUNITY HOUSE INC8× · 2017–2025 · $409k · revenue +50%
- FSFAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF DEKALB COUNTY INC7× · 2017–2025 · $131k · revenue +248%
- KFKISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA6× · 2017–2023 · $60k · revenue +0%
Funded once
- SHSYCAMORE HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND MUSEUMone grant, 2017 · $21k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $20k
- ETEGYPTIAN THEATREone grant, 2018 · $15k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Historical preservation. the organization collects, preserves, and shares the history of dekalb county, georgia. the organization's archives and museum are open to the public for research.
The community foundation of dekalb county promotes community philanthropy by offering local citizens the opportunity to create a charitable legacy that will sustain and improve life in our county.
Elder care services of dekalb county, inc. was established to promote and further the welfare of senior citizens and their families who live in dekalb county, through the provision of services which improve their well being and quality of…
To improve the economic well-being of agriculture and enrich the quality of farm family life.
Were on a mission to improve the quality of life for the citizens of dekalb county through the responsible growth of business and industry. our vision is to facilitate investment into making dekalb county a premier economic driver in…
Responds to community needs with compassionate, Christ-centered programs and services
To support and enhance the dekalb county public library service, including support for literacy programs, children's reading programs, and georgia center for the book.
The foundation encourages, prudently manages and distributes charitable contributions to improve the quality of life of decatur county residents, now and in the future.
Develop commerce in the city of decatur indiana
Work to improve the economic well-being of agriculture and enrich the quality of farm family
To improve the quality of life of the seniors, disabled persons and others in our community through services and programs that meet their physical, mental, emotional, intellectual and mobile needs.
Prevent/intervene in child abuse situations
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dekalb County Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Collaboratory. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 63 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds DeKalb County History Center ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds DEKALB COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF DEKALB COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds KISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds SYCAMORE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds COLLABORATORY ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ADVENTURE WORKS OF DEKALB COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds KISHWAUKEE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DEKALB COUNTY COMMUNITY GARDENS ↗
- Who funds MARION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FARMWORKER AND LANDSCAPER ADVOCACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SAFE PASSAGE INC ↗
- Who funds CASA DeKalb County Inc ↗
- Who funds HINCKLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MARION CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ELMWOOD CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DEKALB COUNTY FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OHIO HISTORY CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds HOPE HAVEN OF DEKALB COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PAY IT FORWARD HOUSE NFP ↗
- Who funds BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Dekalb County Community Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Ideal Industries Foundation · Sycamore Charities Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · George E& Betty Bdutton Foundation · Katz Family Foundation · Horizons Unlimited Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Kishwaukee United Way · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare · Northern Illinois Food Bank · Nebraska Community Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Douglas C & Lynn M Roberts Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.